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Top 10 Most Intelligent Anime Characters

Love them or hate them, these anime characters are the smartest in all of anime. Here are 10 of the most intelligent anime characters we know.

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Light Yagami

Light Yagami

Light Yagami is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a bored young genius who finds a supernatural notebook called a Death Note which was dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk.

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L Lawliet

L Lawliet

L Lawliet is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is an eccentric genius and international private detective, reputed to be the world's greatest, who takes on cases that have stymied national governments and Interpol.

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Itachi Uchiha

Itachi Uchiha

Itachi Uchiha is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Itachi is the older brother of Sasuke Uchiha and is responsible for killing all the members of their clan, sparing only Sasuke.

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Near

Near

Nate River, exclusively known by the mononym Near, is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.

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Shikamaru Nara

Shikamaru Nara

Shikamaru Nara is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. In the anime and manga, Shikamaru is a ninja affiliated with the village of Konohagakure.

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Lelouch Lamperouge

Lelouch Lamperouge

Lelouch vi Britannia whose alias is Lelouch Lamperouge, is the title character and protagonist of the Sunrise anime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. In the series, Lelouch is a former prince from the superpower Britannia who is given the power of the "Geass".

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Kakashi Hatake

Kakashi Hatake

Kakashi Hatake is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto.

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Levi Ackerman

Levi Ackerman

Levi Ackerman often formally referred to as Captain Levi is the squad captain of the Special Operations Squad within the Survey Corps, and is widely known as humanity's strongest soldier.

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Shiro

Shiro

Sora is the main male protagonist of No Game No Life and the cunning and manipulative half of the siblings. Abandoned by his parents, Sora is a brilliant NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) hikikomori (shut-in) gamer along with his step-sister, Shiro, with whom he forms or Blank.

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Edward Elric

Edward Elric

Edward Elric, commonly nicknamed Ed, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series created by Hiromu Arakawa.